as assistant secretary, ruslyn is assistant secretary arnie's duncan's primary advisor. before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. she served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher, a lawyer, and a very influential voice on all policy matters. she was also passionate about ending this issue of bullying and bringing everyone together to stop this disturbing trend so please welcome assistant secretary for civil rights, ruslyn lee. as i said, our moderator is not always our lieutenant governor, of course he needs to introduction -- no, i get to say something. i get to say something. as everyone in this room knows, youngest mayor in 100 years, right? youngest mayor in 100 years

you look at jack and arnie. arnie really, he was the pioneer. >> rose: charismatic. >> he really took this game to the next level. and then follow that in with a savvies and the faldo and great european contingent to go with the fred couples and o'meara's. it has increased exponentially. like you say the golfers that follow in the wake of tiger woods perhaps give him a percentage what he's making right now because he certainly has created the game that we're all love so much. and make a great living from. it's a great sport and we have to work hard and there's no guarantees in this game but we're certainly in a great era. >> rose: you won the u.s. open so you've had a major. how do you compare that to the rider cup. >> uncompareable. the three great experiences i've had in my career so far by the three ryder cups i've played. >> are the europeans still different about it than americans. >> i think perhaps the europeans feel slightly more passionate about the ryder cup because the americans it gets a little water

when arnie duncan was before the committee testifying, he was asked by republicans and democrats what he thought we ought to do. he ought use the market. one of my democrat colleagues said wouldn't it be better to just have a temporary two-year solution. he said no. he thought it was time for a permanent solution. now discussions are bubbling around. i spoke to senator alexander .esterday or the day before he is trying to continue discussions with the white house. what we need is presidential leadership to say "look, we have proposed long-term solutions, interest rates to the market, 10-year treasury, why don't we push the senate to pass some version of that and then we can hammer out the details?" if you can talk a little bit about the politics system. last year when this issue up in january and february e-mailing alexander and asking what you knew. if i remember right, you were not particularly interested in doing much. you did have some ideas but it was not until met romney came or word and said we cannot let this happen because of the economy that the entire issue kind of blew up.

arnie sorenson, the ceo of marriott.is lodging conference on the other side of times square, to you, melissa. >> stay dry, simon. it's like a monsoon through. good to see you. simon hobbs. all right. so let's trade this thing karen, where do you stand on the hotel space? >> i like hertz, actually, the best of all. i think i love that dollar thrifty acquisition for them. marriott is not bad. >> what do you normally order when you order room service? >> french onion soup, and a bottle of dom. it depends on who i'm with. maybe you want to find out. >> oh! >> let's move on here. time now for our top three trades for tuesday. traders around the world are watching japan as the hottest trade on the planet continues to cool off in recent weeks. let's send it over to get the look at how the session in asia is shaping up so far this morning. sri? >> hello, melissa. i think we're in for another rough day. expect morselling on the nikkei. that's what the futures market is certainly telling us. so at the market close, the official ma

thet seems to be focused on role of the education secretary and what arnie duncan and his people will have an authority. chambersns in both seem to want to undercut the secretary's authority to the point where he is basically little more than a cheerleader for state and local education officials. is this worth having to preserve some power? have some sympathy for the frustration that people have in terms of where we are right now. there has been a vacuum by not reauthorizing this for as long as i have been inc. congress. we were supposed to do this in 07 and 08. it has allowed the office to fill that space and through the waiver process that has too much power. in terms of driving education policy around the country. think you did what he had to do in terms of making sure these mandates did not come in with massive penalties. having said that, that is not an acceptable state of affairs. to the extent they're pushing back and saying we should have a law that says the ground that is democratically debated and agreed to, i think it is a better balance than having the secretary's office s

next i remember arnie weber who was dazzling and he was just the same guy holds his hand up and says are you a democrat? the last guy was our nominee to be head of the bureau of labor statistics and he was a statistician statistician. arthur byrnes who was very close to president nixon was, someone that he wanted and i wanted so fisa finally we got a republican. the same guy as the question and he stands there like a cow chewing its cud and then he finally says well i guess you would have to say i am a -- [inaudible] anyway i get back to my hotel room and the phone is ringing off the hook and the republicans on the labor committee are saying didn't you know there was an election? so i said look i cleared these names with the white house and cleared them with the ranking republican. jobless was their favorite republican but anyway i will give them credit because all of the guys did terrific here they were confident and even some of the people who objected called me and said you know we like the guys. jim hudson succeeded me as secretary of labor and later became our ambassador to japa

arnie frank. [laughter] barney frank. intelligent, passionate, abrasive. john adams i don't think was -- but other than that i really think john adams -- barney frank's is the john adams of our 21st century. i think patrick henry is rand paul. i think truly the two parties would love patrick henry. in the opening days of the first continental congress he made this speech arguing for proportional representation in the congress which he was defeated saying we are not just virginians or new yorkers. we are all americans and that gives an impression of henry as the continental minded politician but what he was mainly concerned about was protecting the interest of the most popular colony of america, the colony of virginia. all of his career his primary devotion was to defending the interests interests first of his colony and then of the sovereign commonwealth of virginia. so i think ian rand paul would get along pretty well. i really do think of all the 18th century politicians the one consistently through his career who is most consistently supporting of the t

i was there with certificate arnie duncan this morning where we were thanking him for the investment in promise neighborhoods and the school investment grants coming from the federal government. we have to keep that dialogue going and i'm adding to that. for example, i think to answer i have personally adopted all the middle schooled as my philanthropic goal as along as i am mayor of san francisco. all 12 middle middle schools are going to get more of the resources that they need to be successful. i adopted the middle schools for a direct purpose. i asked our school district where is the biggest drop-off in performance of our kids? where is the disengagement happening? what are we doing about it? and they said we are subject to the cuts in the federal and state programs, which have been the traditional funding sources for our schools. so i am going to take that up myself. and i can't -- i am not privileged to name the source of funding at this time, but we literally got notice that $3 million of private investment from companies that are invested in our kids and our future are going

generations to come the bad news is the fact that there is thirty five years of nuclear waste nuclear expert arnie gundersen helped educate the public about the safety problems at the play and explained what will happen to the waste inside the reactors in about five years it will come out of the nuclear fuel and it's stored in these things called drop right casks so it can be air cool never go outside and they'll sit outside for perhaps forty or fifty years and the big deal there is that there's no place the ship will congress and the obama administration defunded a plan nuclear waste repository millions of pounds of radioactive material will stay at the senate over a site with no place to go use nuclear fuel is held at dozens of temporary locations around the u.s. there are still safety concerns and lingering financial issues at the shut down power plant utility company so cal edison has charge repairs hundreds of millions of dollars over the last year and a half without producing any energy yes and no for a decommissioning the plant could cost three billion dollars i mean the steam generators ar

and later, marriott international ceo arnie sorenson speaks at the chief financial officers conference. >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> this week "the communicators" is at the cable show in washington d.c. where we interview leaders of two large communications companies, cox communications and espn. >> host: well, now we want to introduce you here on "the communicators" to pat esser. mr. esser is president of cox communications. if you would, start by giving us a snapshot of cox communications. >> guest: cox communications, we just celebrated our 50th anniversary of a company. we're a private company, part of cox enterprises, our larger parent entity. we serve about six million commercial and residential customers across the country, about ten million households. we're a telecommunications, broadband, video, voice -- as i said earlier -- business and residential services. and i think we're known, our commitment to our people, our commitment to our customers and investments we've made in our comm

arnie duncan says the states will now be able to seek waivers to shield for poorly performing teachersfrom being held to n higher standards. these evaluations are known as common core. they are part of a major overall to the no child left behind law. critics say it is the latest example of the obama administration over reaching and trying to control american schools. >>> there will be a game 7 in the nba finals. miami storming back from 13 points down in the 4th quarter against the spurs. ray allen nailed the three pointer with seconds left in over time. police were called in because many of the heat fans left they thought the game was over. the fans were founding on the doors to get back in. there's a new re-entry policy. miami wins 103-to-100. game 7 tomorrow night thursday night. heather that's our 5 at 5:30. >> can't blame them for wanting to get back in there. an all out defense of the agency's controversial surveillance program. he is doing this in front of law americas. >> they could hearn more about dozens of terror plots they were able to stop thanks to the programs in in plac

arnie duncan came to san francisco to hear more about itnd a perhaps help expand it to other cities. >> this is one of the more unique creative innovative entrepreneur ideas i have seen. >> reporter: the city has deposited $50 of taxpayer money into a college savings account for every child that entered kindergarten. one hundred dollars for low- income student. >> we are trying to make it a national model. >> >> reporter: recent studies show students with their own college savings account are four times more likely to go to college than those that don't have an account. the program has cost the city $600 thousand. school teachers and principals said they have seen attitudes change. it's more conversation about what they want to do when they grow up. >> reporter: it didn't happen before? >> no, not at much. >> reporter: the success or failure will not become apparent until they graduate from high school. but it's a program they start to catch on. >> >> well, it's the kind of contest that's not for everyone and it makes for interesting pictures it's the annual company he 'tis question

arnie duncan came to san francisco to hear more about itnd a perhaps help expand it to other cities. >> this is one of the more unique creative innovative entrepreneur ideas i have seen. >> reporter: the city has deposited $50 of taxpayer money into a college savings account for every child that entered kindergarten. one hundred dollars for low- income student. >> we are trying to make it a national model. >> >> reporter: recent studies show students with their own college savings account are four times more likely to go to college than those that don't have an account. the program has cost the city $600 thousand. school teachers and principals said they have seen attitudes change. it's more conversation about what they want to do when they grow up. >> reporter: it didn't happen before? >> no, not at much. >> reporter: the success or failure will not become apparent until they graduate from high school. but it's a program they start to catch on. >> >> well, it's the kind of contest that's not for everyone and it makes for interesting pictures it's the annual company he 'tis question

arnie weber became the first amendment omb and he was a burly and president of northwestern university and so on. so, if i had ruled all these people out, i have ruled because they were registered democrats. i wouldn't have had the competence. i'm not saying -- i should have asked the question and done something about it. but anyway, if you have competent people around you, you are going to do much better than if you don't. the first job is to form your team and get people who are competent and that those. >> host: that leads to rule number six in the george shultz book, finally give the people on your team responsibility and reward them for exercising. >> guest: you want to be able to say here is what we are trying to achieve. this is our objective, and your part -- this is what you're supposed to be doing. and yes, you and i will work on it together but this is your responsibility. and i want to administer on the basis of no surprises that if something happens dad, i want to know about it right away, if something happens that surprisingly good i would like to know about that, too bec

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. >> in one form, education cert -- secretary arnie duncan, and several teachers discuss ways to prepare teachers -- students for the connected world of learning. they also recommended ways to improve schools. he was interviewed by andrea mitchell. this is about one hour. >> chris and are you thrilled to be able to ask some questions. usually we have to answer all the hard ones. we'll do it quite happily. i'll start, and we'd love to begin -- hope you guys had the three amazing teachers, all of whom i've worked with in different capacities, whether here or back home in chicago, and let's just start big picture, if we could step back, think big, if you could redesign schools from scratch. i know your team is thinking about designs. if we could redesign schools from scratch, what would they look like today? anybody feel free to jump in and happily engage kids very different until their own mind. >> well, i think we start by look agent things very differently. what we heard earlier today is a good example. i think we as teachers need to simply get out of kids' way, to give them the space to